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People First Employment Stories 4 STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WITH SIGNIFICANT DISABILITIES WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY VOLUME IV Of the POSSIBILITIES Series 2008 A Publication of People First Wisconsin PEOPLE FIRST WISCONSIN Marian Center for Nonprofits 3211 South Lake Drive Milwaukee, WI 53235 (414) 483-2546 (888) 270-5352 fax (414) 483-2568 www.peoplefirstwi.org Mary Clare Carlson of People First Wisconsin conducted the interviews and wrote the stories of those people featured in this booklet. Editor: Amy J McGrath The publication is funded by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) CFDA No. 93.768 Wisconsin Department of Health Services/Pathways to Independence his is the fourth booklet of the POSSIBILITIES series. The goal of the series is to highlight and celebrate the lives of people with significant disabilities, especially T intellectual disabilities, who are living, learning and working in Wisconsin. Our hope is that these stories will introduce you to the many possibilities that now exist for people with significant disabilities to become active and contributing members of their communities. The first two booklets in the POSSIBILITIES series feature stories about people with significant disabilities who are building lives in the community outside of institutions. The third booklet and this fourth booklet feature stories that reflect the growing trend of people with significant disabilities working in integrated community employment. The number of integrated community employment options can be as great as the number of people with significant disabilities seeking employment. The beauty of integrated community employment is that there is never a need to resort to a one-size-fits-all model. These stories are just a sample of the growing number of positive stories about integrated community employment that can be found in Wisconsin. The stories in this booklet reflect the diversity of jobs chosen, the range of work schedules available and the variations on support services needed to successfully employ people with significant disabilities in integrated community jobs. In the past, support services have not always been available to assist people with significant disabilities to work in integrated community employment. But today Wisconsin is uniquely positioned to support integrated community employment for people with significant disabilities like never before. This is due to the expansion of Family Care, participation in the Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG), targeted resources from the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) and the recommended reforms of the DHS (Department of Health Services) Managed Care Employment Task Force. Whether you are a family member, guardian or caring friend; a staff person from a managed care organization, school or community services provider; or you are a person with significant disabilities, we hope these stories will inspire your own exploration of integrated community employment possibilities. We also hope that you will recognize that neither the severity of disability nor the complexity of support needs should prevent a person with significant disabilities from successfully working in an integrated community job. We hope you will consider employment first. 2 Jimmy approached Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) about having them contract with her to help Jimmy find an integrated community job. When helping Jimmy look for work, she remembered all the times that the folks at Bodi’s Bakery had asked about him. She asked the bakery owner, Jane about hiring Jimmy. Jane hesitated. She liked Jimmy but she couldn’t figure out how she could use Community integration really does pay him. Jimmy does have some challenges. off. That’s how Jimmy found his job! He is blind in one eye and has autism. When Jimmy was attending Wilmot But Marsha was persistent. She kept Union High School, he used to go with going back to the bakery. Over time, other students from the special education Jane began seeing ways that Jimmy department to Bodi’s Bakery in the small could be of help and Jimmy has now town of Twin Lakes. been working at Bodi’s Bakery for two years! Bodi’s is not only well known for their wonderful bakery but also for being a Marsha did some job coaching with warm and welcoming community place. Jimmy in the beginning, but most of his Jimmy really enjoyed chatting with the training came from the bakery staff. If bakery owners and the other people who Jimmy had trouble learning a new task, worked there. And they liked chatting Jane would figure out how he could with him. After Jimmy graduated, he practice and assign homework. Jimmy didn’t go there much anymore. The has a unique way of viewing the world special education classes kept visiting such as remembering the days that he the bakery though. And the folks at the works at the bakery not as Tuesday, bakery always asked about Jimmy and Thursday, and Sunday but as Box day, wanted to know how he was doing. Bread day and Bucket day (corresponding to the tasks performed). Jimmy’s former teacher, Marsha kept up Jimmy is even making contributions to with him through Special Olympics. the workplace. He turned his infamous Jimmy’s parents believed in their son scribbling (in high school he drew and always saw him as someone who smiley faces everywhere) into the could work. Since there aren’t many ‘Smiley Face Cookie’ that is now community service providers in this exclusively available at Bodi’s Bakery. rural part of the state, Marsha 3 Nate Making a living as an artist is never an him. His just happens to be his job easy thing. But when you are an artist coach. The weeds, leaves and vines that with significant disabilities (cerebral cannot be removed without affecting palsy, intellectual disabilities, severe their impression on the clay are burned hearing loss and limited speech) the off in the kiln leaving a fossil-like challenge is even greater. Nate has impression in the earthenware which taken on that challenge and is gives Nate’s pottery its distinctive rustic succeeding far beyond anyone’s look. That is where the name of his expectations. business comes from – Nature’s Earthenware. Nate did very well in a high school ceramics class. It gave his father an idea. DVR also helped Nate to develop his As an avid Redwing pottery collector, he promotional materials including a had the radical idea that his son could professional earn a living by making pottery. Nate’s display case that father contacted his friend, Scott, who he can use at the had a pottery studio in Madison to ask art and craft him about working with Nate. Door Pottery enthusiastically welcomed Nate into their studio. With support from DVR (Division of Vocational Rehabilitation), the studio bathroom was made handicapped accessible and a ramp was added to the building entrance. Scott gave advice to Nate about the best clay to use, allowed Nate to have access shows to exclusive pottery glazes needed to where he coat the pottery and gave advice to his sells his father about developing a business plan. pottery. His father’s Nate uses a manual slab-making support is crucial to the business as well. machine to roll the clay into a smooth slab with the thickness he desires. He Nate has been making and selling his then presses the various leaves, cones, pottery for eight years now. A major vines and weeds that he collects on accomplishment this year was to be nature hikes with his father into the clay invited into his first juried art show with a special hand roller. Then because (where judges determine which artists of his limited mobility, he wraps the clay will show their work). Nature’s around a PVC plastic pipe to create the Earthenware just continues to grow with shape of his vases. Like many artists endless possibilities. Nate has an assistant who works with 4 Ryean The state’s Family Care program in also happen to be the first three letters of LaCrosse is beginning to open up his name. opportunities for people to explore creative new options for integrated Ryean has a team of people, led by his community employment. A training mother, who advise and help him with sponsored by Pathways to Independence his business. He and his team spent on micro enterprises did just that for about four months developing his Ryean. promotional materials. To get customers, he advertises as well as sets up agreements with local grocery stores for home deliveries. He works five afternoons a week. Orders are placed by calls to his cell phone which are checked first thing every afternoon by his support staff. He already has some regular customers like one of the local T.V. stations in town. Transportation is provided by his support staff. Since his business is still quite young, he and his Ryean is a young man in his early 30’s with a winning smile. He is very outgoing and likes to be on the go. He remembers the names of everyone he meets. His autism does challenge him in numerous ways not the least of which is his difficulty with fine motor skills and limited language skills. Ryean and his mother attended the training on micro enterprises about two team are always making adjustments to years ago. Micro enterprise is simply a the business plan. Recently he got a term used to refer to a small business debit card for his business to cover the where a person with a disability works cost of items that he picks up until he for himself instead of someone else or can get paid at the time of delivery. some other business. Taking into consideration his personality and his As with many new small businesses, likes and dislikes, Ryean created his own Ryean’s is not yet making a profit.
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